Cost of Online Collections

Dan Zambonini made this Freedom of Information request to The National Museum of Science and Industry

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From: Dan Zambonini

10 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

With regards to your online collections (i.e. website(s) that allow
users to browse your collection(s)), can you please detail:

1) How much it cost to put your collections online? (Not including
digitisation costs)

2) How many page views, on average, the online collections receive
per month?

3) If you have participated in any cross-institutional collections
projects (e.g. Europeana, People's Network, NMOLP), how much it
cost to make your collections available to the project (or how much
it is expected to cost, for current projects)?

Yours faithfully,

Dan Zambonini

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From: Freedom of Information (SCM)

10 February 2009

Thank you for your enquiry.

We will reply as soon as possible. There may a delay in your receiving a
response, depending on the volume of enquiries we have received. However,
a response will definitely be forwarded to you within 20 working days.

Kind regards,

National Museum of Science and Industry

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From: Cook Rory

9 March 2009

Dear Dan Zambonini,

Thank you for your email dated 10th February 2009 with regards to the
Science Museum's on-line budget and web content. I have forwarded your
enquiry onto the Museum's Head of Web; someone from that section should
be in contact with you in due course to discuss this matter further.

I hope this information is of some use to you and I wish you all the
best with your research.

Rory Cook,
Documentation Centre,
Science Museum,
London, SW7 2DD

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